tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30986012111596388012024-02-06T22:36:14.463-08:00Beth Sproutsbethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-81127130314201035812020-09-19T04:22:00.002-07:002020-09-19T04:22:36.671-07:00Community Quilt<p>Lockdown threw up unique challenges for everyone, for better or worse it was a completely new experience and one that will stay with us as a global community, a shared global experience. My Lockdown was dominated by my curiosity and exploration of my locality during our Hour of Daily Exercise and the translation of this into artworks created for my first year of University. The first year which was half on campus, half at home. </p><p>Given that I have a lot of textiles and the tools to work in different textile methods, my work took a turn in this direction working from home. Thinking about documentation of time/experiences/ideas/collections I have been playing about with the presentation of this through collage and patchwork, and with a personal interest in sleep (suffering from chronic lifelong insomnia) this led me to consider quilts/blankets. I have never made any quilts since it is usually very meticulous and perfect - not something I enjoy doing when I am letting loose creatively - however, I am trying to investigate quilt making in a more free and expressive way. Starting with a quilt based on loose paintings of potsherds found in the local Brook during Lockdown, dying the fabric with clay from the river bed, I want to move to a community linked quilt.</p><p>I have made a Call for Fabric, any textiles attractive or ugly, old or new, large or small to create a quilt for the Lovely little community on Our Road. I have no idea whether I will receive enough donations to make a large or a small quilt, or many quilts! I am hoping to hear stories of why these textiles might have a special link to Lockdown, perhaps the stories might be more important than the quilt. </p><p>I have one donation to begin with...here’s hoping for more! Exciting!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitBGo6p7k_sgBMlx0bCoYTBezPBGQXbipL7qIlb3tQQ3FM25S9ykL7ooHjla1ZsmNpEjAcaWM354520r-mK4dDhEtrRt56ZrbUMtE48_c3AMB7I0n8P7chTJwcgA232AdmH9hTY41cfgs/s2048/C27CCBBB-24C5-4FE9-A0E7-BB6C95D534EF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitBGo6p7k_sgBMlx0bCoYTBezPBGQXbipL7qIlb3tQQ3FM25S9ykL7ooHjla1ZsmNpEjAcaWM354520r-mK4dDhEtrRt56ZrbUMtE48_c3AMB7I0n8P7chTJwcgA232AdmH9hTY41cfgs/w640-h640/C27CCBBB-24C5-4FE9-A0E7-BB6C95D534EF.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-53893987677563833432019-09-08T11:53:00.000-07:002019-09-08T11:53:22.941-07:00Fast Fashion, Living DangerouslyI wrote this in 2018 as something to work on, but I think it reads fine so I have decided to post it as the original unedited rant. It is by no means an exhaustive list etc.<br />
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Fast fashion and the garment industry is one of the most
terrible things happening on the planet at the moment, and consumers are just
lapping it up like these are the golden days. We will look back on this and be
pretty disgusted with ourselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The main problems;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfair labour in producing the garments with poor quality of
life and poor pay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Consumer demand for ever increasing low prices, clothing
costs less now than it did in the 1980s; this drives down the prices for the
labour and further reduces their quality of life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contamination of water systems in garment productions;
companies not following regulations to ensure local water supplies remain
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The overuse of water for clothing we are in no need of;
water is used for growing the crops that the clothing is made from, cotton is a
very thirsty plant and this is causing water shortages across the globe. Not to
mention contamination from pesticides to the local populations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cotton is also not easily biodegradable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Microfibres washing out of synthetic clothing every time we
use the washing machine, we are drinking loads of the little blighters already
in our tap water.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An enormous amount of clothing being sent to landfill every
day when the fibres can be repurposed, no matter how holey they are.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not buying quality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Buying because you can.<o:p></o:p></div>
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People wearing 20% of what is in their wardrobe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Endless seasons with no covetable clothing, I look at the
stuff in shops and think 90% of this is trash – and that is probably true.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The industry doesn’t have a heart – the big high street
companies outsource the production and find the cheapest they can which often
means poor regulation and little concern for humans, the environment etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Buy the best you can afford (this might mean
using the high street – which is fine, we all have to live within our means,
but our means don’t necessarily mean owning 10 pairs of trousers)<o:p></o:p></div>
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shops and eBay to find preowned clothing. I also try to find the best quality
clothes as these will last well and when I am tired of them they are still in
good condition and go back into the second hand market.<o:p></o:p></div>
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you’ve come up with a great outfit then keep wearing out, people will love to
look at it again and again too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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it, often councils will collect textiles, but even your local charity shops
have regular textile waste collection.<o:p></o:p></div>
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well made pieces then you will want to do this anyway as they tend to have much
longer lifespans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-73370505112371346732017-10-29T08:11:00.002-07:002017-10-29T08:11:13.730-07:00Raku Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beth Sprouts is back! Sort of. Creative outputs have been limited due to child rearing, so to escape I have made plates and small bowls. With help from <a href="http://www.potterybristol.co.uk/">http://www.potterybristol.co.uk/</a></div>
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It brings me such joy to run out of the house and stare at mud for three hours, no really.</div>
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But, I have been keeping my fingers warm throughout winter by knitting like a crazy person. Wool feels gross in summer FYI. So I have knit up a vest, a cardigan, a large fluffy jumper, a crocheted granny square jumper, a mohair dress, a lilac hat, a thick cardigan and on the go is a grey hat, a top/vest, a mohair cardigan, a yellow crochet skirt.<div><br></div><div>Phew. They're talking knit revolution, here here! You can find so much on ebay or in charity shops. I mainly make up my own patterns and since I have a penchant for the boxy shapes this is really rather simple. Usually 4 of 5 rectangles sewn together-voila! </div><div><br></div><div>Check out Wool And The Gang for some inspirational modern knitwear.</div><div><br></div><div>The joyful thing about yarn is that there is no waste.</div><div><br></div><div>I urge you to try, it is long winded but rewarding. If you can't hack tedious knits then choose a big fat needle and big fat yarn. Also, crochet is much more forgiving for beginners.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitTqiAzLBnL0-CIINJGhpt2F63vdUHdXMCW46PkEKw1c75HiE5o8mL2NI2qd4Mk9mHy_xQo6zx1_RdYpulV8ZBk6dxW-ISZXjZQGXkNPDZZw3a05h7csRAKL8dfu_9BXFYX3O3PICHxaQ/s640/blogger-image--1463140695.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitTqiAzLBnL0-CIINJGhpt2F63vdUHdXMCW46PkEKw1c75HiE5o8mL2NI2qd4Mk9mHy_xQo6zx1_RdYpulV8ZBk6dxW-ISZXjZQGXkNPDZZw3a05h7csRAKL8dfu_9BXFYX3O3PICHxaQ/s640/blogger-image--1463140695.jpg"></a></div></div>bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-72545292016610855322014-11-28T17:06:00.001-08:002014-11-28T17:06:18.484-08:00You might live for now, but it might not be your fulfilment.bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-43501170133729306272014-07-16T06:55:00.001-07:002014-07-16T15:32:11.340-07:00Beth Sprouts Pondering; guzzle guzzle guzzleIt does strike me as extremely worrying that with a rapidly increasing world population and temperature rises looming (so assuming less farmland available), that it is accepted that meat, clothing and general food should be getting cheaper and cheaper and that each individual has the right to a never ending supply. <div><br></div><div>I am pretty sure that with more people, stuff should be harder to come buy. Should we not be rationing? Should we not be buying direct to skip the corporation who will subsidise our greed and increase debts elsewhere. Perhaps try and keep our hard earned individual wealth out of the hands of big business, government and the national debt etc. Keep your money passing locally. Have a meat roast once a month, or less.</div><div><br></div><div>It is hard. Everything is so distracting, sales, offers, advertising. If you think you have been using your free will then think again, even if you are trying.</div><div><br></div><div>Learn crafts, how to cook, how to sew and repair, how to grow veg in pots, CYCLE. Take your self away from the shops and magazines - you are being dictated to and losing your choice. </div><div><br></div><div>Think first. Buy less. Source better. Keep trying I guess.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-2605721193211692782014-07-09T02:54:00.002-07:002014-07-09T02:54:59.699-07:00Beth Sprouts Trend; how amulesing!<br />
If you like a charity shop, and boy do I, you will be very excited and I think easily gratified. Mules are coming back, I can just feel it in my bones. I am having a bit of an anti-chain store, anti-fashion magazine moment and have kept myself away for at least six months if not a year, so I am trying to use my subliminal powers of trend forecasting. So I may be wrong. But I will be in them you can count on that.<br />
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Mules haunted my early teens, they were very 'in' and yet they felt way to old and just seemed ugly. Maybe now I am of the age they are more appealing. Low healed and easy to air your tootsies. PLUS they were trendy not too long ago so the charity shop are bursting at the seams with them. Truelly a kid in candy store moment.<br />
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Wooh I wana be like you Carrie.bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-44652445642208735592014-07-06T08:31:00.001-07:002014-07-06T08:31:28.439-07:00Beth Sprouts Handmade; gettin sweaty in calicut<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Sooo, a dear chum got wedded in Calicut in Kerala in March. Now I should mention here that Calicut lends its name to Calico, the cotton fabric that was created here. Unrelated to this fact, me and her mum jumped in an autorickshaw to get to her favourite fabric shop. Good grief, I was in heaven. Four floors of gorgeous prints, I wish we had things like this in the UK, infact I wish we had the desire to have clothes tailored for ourselves, and to own unique an individual pieces. Ho hum.<div><br></div><div>So I got a load of stuff, which is great. And here are three pieces I have made so far. Erm, I hate ironing...waste of electricity...ahem...</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQpH0lqD38cxJzjCRO8jVa8pNXil2jOm1ltRJY4J0Sdrkk1xVUbl1lUL_RrJpTjuj_kawiMRQlyTyp_fB97g2zhK37O8GOZ-TQ5T03Pr5-LJMpFXvIMM2Fcgawwc6SDv22GR7xQyo0SQY/s640/blogger-image--592697346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQpH0lqD38cxJzjCRO8jVa8pNXil2jOm1ltRJY4J0Sdrkk1xVUbl1lUL_RrJpTjuj_kawiMRQlyTyp_fB97g2zhK37O8GOZ-TQ5T03Pr5-LJMpFXvIMM2Fcgawwc6SDv22GR7xQyo0SQY/s640/blogger-image--592697346.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrVFjqwQPeOBMlUGSgQj47MFpHequ1WlJGgGrO1stDmcEJvMKdx_EvbJS5p7kU14MLID6TxyngSvtKgMiGa39qNK6O-4SZwlrORZDF3kZHa1Wd2SRDrt8VKK9D85ePfFEMizaciVPj5w/s640/blogger-image--167778726.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrVFjqwQPeOBMlUGSgQj47MFpHequ1WlJGgGrO1stDmcEJvMKdx_EvbJS5p7kU14MLID6TxyngSvtKgMiGa39qNK6O-4SZwlrORZDF3kZHa1Wd2SRDrt8VKK9D85ePfFEMizaciVPj5w/s640/blogger-image--167778726.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbCdIdgsab0YeMRo8YYao7ePrjtvSyLSbiiVNBhFHjqPkoxgN-4ky9d3OHYWRw-QQkhYDFewNQlGcbvLBoKODgQwLR7cS7487sJhb5lcUvr8N6NmogjNlD0iLPy06X0H03R6fDCv_yx0/s640/blogger-image--1838307238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbCdIdgsab0YeMRo8YYao7ePrjtvSyLSbiiVNBhFHjqPkoxgN-4ky9d3OHYWRw-QQkhYDFewNQlGcbvLBoKODgQwLR7cS7487sJhb5lcUvr8N6NmogjNlD0iLPy06X0H03R6fDCv_yx0/s640/blogger-image--1838307238.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div>bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-12230605209538057922014-04-17T12:31:00.001-07:002014-04-17T12:31:28.784-07:00Beth Sprouts Handmade; you can't buy me...oh no wait, you can!Launching my new shop!<br />
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Now you can have your own bit of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BethSprouts">BethSprouts</a> in your home too. Lucky you.<br />
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I will add items as I make them. Who knows what they might be - keeping you on your toes aren't I!<br />
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First up are my 'Slug Lady' illustrations, hand painted originals, none of your multiple prints malarky just yet...</div>
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Found a new shop for you to have a peek at. I haven't actually bought anything from them yet, because the choice is just insane! <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ThaiHandbags">Thai Handbags Etsy shop</a><br />
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If you haven't already found out about the joys of <a href="http://etsy.com/">Etsy</a> - it has been around since 2005 - then I urge you to browse. It can be a little overwhelming, again from a choice perspective, but it is a great place to start looking for designer/maker wears, illustrations etc. It is essentially an online craft fair, giving you an opportunity to support the small people when you need to get a birthday present for mum, rather than popping into town and giving the guys with the big bucks your well earned dough.<br />
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From <a href="tel:2007-200" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">2</a>007/08 and were mostly going out on the tiles wear. 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The same with anything like organic or locally sourced etc., a cohort of people choose to think about it and try their best to change but it is a definite minority. It is hard.<br />
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The funny thing is that it is so difficult to find things on the high street that make you look a little different now, it changes so fast and everyone catches on to things so quickly, especially with social media. To try and stay 'ahead' you would need to buy a LOT and then of course, it needs to be cheap.<br />
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My new little 'ethos' now I am a bit older and have experimented with style already is to;<br />
1. Save up for very nice well made items (that are either wow out there, or very subtle )<br />
2. Make the on-trend, or what I feel is on trend, pieces myself<br />
3. Keep things for longer and thus HAVE to make sure that they are useful and will survive the cut throat world of the wardrobe<br />
4. Still dip into vintage and charity shops<br />
5. Buy from companies that have a bit more about them<br />
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So this year I wanted a pair of board shorts, hip and cool, we will all be in them by 2016...or maybe 2015.<br />
I picked up a leaflet on a market stall in Bristol for <a href="http://continentclothing.com/">Continent Clothing</a>, they work directly with the tailors so that they take a good income from the garments and the prices are still really really inexpensive - how could you choose Primani over that!<br />
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Purple hands shorts £20, made by Allagi - thats the name of the guy who physically made them.<br />
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<img src="http://images.asos-media.com/inv/media/1/0/5/1/3141501/image4xl.jpg" /> Ostwald Helgason 2013 £338<br />
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So yep, I chose the purple hands!bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-65391646608530116992014-03-19T07:34:00.001-07:002014-03-19T07:34:28.638-07:00Beth Sprouts Home; Hook and Loop<br />
Hello! Back after a bit, a big bit, of a break.<br />
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We have just bought our first home, and boy was it dirty, so all of my free time has been spent cleaning nicotine from anywhere and everywhere.<br />
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I then went to India...and found SO MUCH fabric. It is much more common to finish the edging of lengths of fabric on one of the selvage sides, because most clothing in India is tailored to fit you so the fabric is pre-finished for hemlines. OR curtains...ahh very suitable for new home.<br />
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So I set out to make a few 'nets' for our windows...trouble is, they are UPVC...now how in the world do you put in the holes to hang the nets...<br />
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You don't!<br />
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Here is my top tip - hook and loop fasteners!<br />
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More commonly known as VELCRO, but remember this is just a brand name. But I can say VELCRO because I used that!<br />
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Choose jazzy fabric that will let the light through<br />
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Where are all our eccentrics?<br />
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We have entered a global, international, digital age of, well, blandness.<br />
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Last thing I can think of which was reasonably creative and expressive was our love for Harajuku kids.<br />
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Then we stopped reading books, and starting looking at blogs/social media sites/online retailers, and our individualism has drained away slowly down the plug hole.<br />
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It feels as if we cannot separate ourselves and sit in our own heads for a while anymore. We are thoroughly overexposed and overstimulated, and appear to be in constant demand of this. Is there too much choice? Growing up in small town North Wales I was thoroughly underexposed to exciting looks and styles. I reveled in 'The Clothes Show' and magazines. But the choice of mags were limited too, as it was small town Wales. You could develop your own style from snippets of things you have seen, and things you could afford, and generally things you could find.<br />
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I wonder if this caused more outlandish eccentric fashions and subcultures to develop. They could brew in their own good time. Now we would all be well aware of these, they may be documented and visible to all and many worldwide.<br />
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Now it is possible to trawl through mountains of images and select what you like, so we don't have to make many truly new and innovative decisions ourselves. And if someone has made this decision, we can all have a go.<br />
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Is it thus hard for new designers to break boundary's? Can they do this?<br />
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Where are we going? Ach, to go live in a log cabin with a few magazines subscriptions...<br />
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A selection of flamboyants for you. A lot of these developed their styles in the late 70s and 80s, was it important to be subversive in the time of Thatcherism. We are leaving a recession now, could this be a time of development for new eccentrics?<br />
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<br />bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-37335544971245075562013-10-09T07:17:00.001-07:002013-10-09T07:18:04.992-07:00Beth Sprouts; The Tides are TurningOoh Interesting. Things are changing. We are only at the start mind, so who knows where we will end up. But we soon shall possibly be - educated consumers. No more questions on 'why is this so expensive' compared to something else. We will know exactly why! We will make more informed choices about clothing.<br />
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I took a short course this weekend; <a href="http://www.arts.ac.uk/fashion/courses/short-courses/browse-short-courses/by-subject/start-ups/starting-own-label/">starting your own fashion label</a> at UAL. Golly, it was so nice to be talking about and listening about something you are actually interested in.<br />
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Our lecturer highlighted the label <a href="http://www.honestby.com/">honest by.</a> the first transparent company. This means when browsing the site you can take it at face value, orrr look in detail at each product. You find out the cost of the thread, the mark-ups and reasons for these, the carbon foot print. The carbon footprint shocked me, it is mad how much energy goes into making one garment. Think of this, and then think about chucking something you have worn once in the bin - maddening!<br />
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You then have to think - how on earth did my t-shirt cost me £2. Where have they cheated someone? I have heard that large retail companies can take 95% of that £2 - so what on earth does the 10p do?<br />
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Another interesting label with a similar manifesto has just been on <a href="http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2013/10/too-good.html">style bubble</a>. So have a read of that and then maybe have a look at the online stores.<br />
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I busied myself with <a href="http://www.brisfest.co.uk/">Brisfest</a> last weekend, the new version of Ashton Court Festival. Went last year and drank too much cider and it is known in our household as 'Fightfest'. Nuff said.<br />
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On the Sunday I was taking things easy, my head was a little heavy, so to make myself feel better I did a little retail therapy. A shop called <a href="http://www.thefeathertree.co.uk/">The Feather Tree</a> had a stall there, I think they mainly aim to sell their feather hair extensions at festivals, but they also had lots of lovely simple pieces made from African fabrics. Well, you gotta love an African print, and it is more accessible these days with things like ASOS africa etc. They work with a guy in Kenya, buy the fabric second hand and then pay him for each piece he makes, so that he can benefit directly.<br />
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I'd check it out because at the moment tops are a tenner...but obviously I am not supporting cheap cheap clothing, but still you can't deny a bargain!<br />
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<br />bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-11926428796201840232013-09-27T12:49:00.001-07:002013-09-27T12:49:44.996-07:00Beth Sprouts Handmade; diory me!Look Look! Raf must be an avid Beth Sprouts reader after seeing my rendition of his paisley excellences. Dior SS14 - featuring a 'curve shirt'. As seen here in May 2012...you heard it here first right? <div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxA_O0cTBMgm3piQJZr3emqptZGKqhkUrKYBgeWhW3_GKQc3VIS-D115dGq29HzI4YwssaXFgWg9z_gFdX_gEbVjU4s_pKl8rbXjB7WAK_LhmPUAlLGNZwvGasOw9xlrPB1vEg_7C8x8c/s640/blogger-image-672199439.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxA_O0cTBMgm3piQJZr3emqptZGKqhkUrKYBgeWhW3_GKQc3VIS-D115dGq29HzI4YwssaXFgWg9z_gFdX_gEbVjU4s_pKl8rbXjB7WAK_LhmPUAlLGNZwvGasOw9xlrPB1vEg_7C8x8c/s640/blogger-image-672199439.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8Sfz6lMnNgIKk-TRMhX9hSrgmcmm2PZe-pfwTBfzfJkquw0WjSctxzgdHAuyBzai08wkp3WTdr2fqTmDI8fuomEKC2tNnRyhfpiiFuIeq6TYLX98XkVMG6hmKxuguWSftKbSXMHxjXs/s640/blogger-image-374811636.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8Sfz6lMnNgIKk-TRMhX9hSrgmcmm2PZe-pfwTBfzfJkquw0WjSctxzgdHAuyBzai08wkp3WTdr2fqTmDI8fuomEKC2tNnRyhfpiiFuIeq6TYLX98XkVMG6hmKxuguWSftKbSXMHxjXs/s640/blogger-image-374811636.jpg"></a> Photo courtesy of style.com</div><br></div>bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-23964587499176309362013-09-02T13:29:00.001-07:002013-09-04T03:24:46.742-07:00Beth Sprouts; How Now Brown Cow<div>
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Fixed in my memory of childhood disgust was the 80s VW golf with the odd bug eyed headlights. Boy it seemed so very dated. Funnily enough I now find them uber-hip and would love a soft top. I digress, the other cause for complaint as a 7 year old was the - brown car. Much like below.<br />
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Mollusk magazine to quote themselves, '<span style="background-color: white; color: #9b9b9b; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">is a quarterly magazine which is about promoting new and upcoming artists in all fields, from illustration to photography, music to Nicolas Cage; each issue features an eclectic mix of fresh new photos, stylistic art, and interviews from those new artists willing to lend their services.'</span><br />
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A pair of saggy bottomed cerise velvet overalls. I have already washed the car in them, of course. The little ted was a gift from my mum a few years ago, it is amazing the colour is exactly the same! And amazing how I managed to get such a teddy bear shaped rear view on the overalls.<br />
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The little clutch bag is of the same fabric, with a contrasting blue zip. You can't see it, but it is lined with a lovely liberty fabric remnant. NOW, I am pretty sure I have somewhere in my sketchbooks from a few years ago a design for the bag - which I never made - and then of course Celine has gone and done it.<br />
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I should also mention the T-shirt is also fairtrade - I have made two striped shirts with this pattern. I love it. Very airy, and there's something a bit more interesting about a T-shirt not made from jersey.<br />
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<br />bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-49736590773705354472013-07-25T04:53:00.002-07:002013-09-04T03:28:05.844-07:00Beth Sprouts Purchases; Everybody's gone surfin'Today is a special day. I am celebrating 27 years on the planet. YIPPEE!<br />
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These 1970s platforms are a small gift to myself. I saw them last week in a charity shop window display - and thought 'Holy Moly!' this piece of history must be mine! And luckily no one else had had such an epiphany and they were still in the shop - Phew!<br />
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More importantly they are in excellent condition and very comfortable, still there is room for twisted ankles, oh yes there is.<br />
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Around my neck like a medal commemorating my 27 years, is a wonderful carved apple wood pineapple. Pineapples being my new obsession. Not to eat of course. This was lovingly worked on by my hubby. Cheers Darl'.<br />
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Whilst in said charity shop this shirt called out to me. It has been darned a little here and there, and I am quite convinced it would have been a surfer dude's, playing his uke on the sand.<br />
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<br />bethsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11040026814594108353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098601211159638801.post-17287054914510335402013-07-24T08:27:00.001-07:002013-09-04T03:29:08.506-07:00Beth Sprouts Homemade; Mediterranean summerAhh glorious sunshine. Oh how we missed thee. So much so that we chucked all our old summer clothes out!<br />
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Sadly a shop in Bristol which has sold Fairtrade Cotton for the last 30 years or so is closing down. Even online. And more sadly I have only recently found the shop (or at least that they sold fabric), so have not had enough time to make the most of them. So in my last visit I picked up a heavy stripey cotton, in the style of Dolce and Gabbana SS13, and a funny shade of peach light cotton.<br />
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Playing with shapes here a little, so it isn't what you'd normally expect for an arm hole. Here's my new summer dress.<br />
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